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State Information > Disability Statistics > 2005 > Mississippi

Mississippi Disability Data Table From the 2005 American Community Survey

Estimates for 2005

An estimated 560,000 people in Mississippi have a disability, or 21.4% of the population age 5 and over. An estimated 122,000 people, or 4.7% of the population 5 and over, have difficulty performing self-care activities, also known as Activities of Daily Living, such as dressing, bathing, or getting around inside the home.

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Subject Population (Thousands) With a disability (Thousands) With a disability (Percent) With a self-care difficulty (Thousands) With a self-care difficulty (Percent)
Total in Mississippi
(ages 5 and over)		 2,619 560 21.4% 122 4.7%
Disability Type          
Sensory   164   40 24.3%
Mobility   354   108 30.6%
Cognitive   218   72 33.2%
Self-care   122   122  
Leaving the home   161   87 54.1%
Work disability   340   103 30.4%
Gender          
Male 1,253 258 20.6% 48 3.8%
Female 1,366 302 22.1% 74 5.5%
Age          
Children (5-17) 535 43 8.0% 6 1.1%
    5-15 448 34 7.7% 5 1.1%
    16-17 87 9 10.1% 1 1.1%
Working Ages (18-64) 1,749 318 18.2% 66 3.8%
    18-44 1,061 123 11.6% 23 2.1%
    45-64 689 195 28.3% 43 6.3%
Elderly (65+) 335 199 59.5% 50 15.0%
    65-74 191 94 49.1% 18 9.6%
    75-84 110 76 69.4% 20 17.8%
    85+ 33 29 86.2% 12 36.9%
Race          
White 1,626 345 21.2% 70 4.3%
African American 947 211 22.3% 51 5.4%
Asian/Pacific Islander 24 2 8.2% 0 1.2%
American Indian/Alaska Native 22 7 31.0% 2 10.2%
Ethnicity          
Hispanic 44 5 11.9% 1 2.7%
Non-Hispanic 2,575 554 21.5% 121 4.7%
Family Income          
In poverty 534 168 31.5% 41 7.8%
Above poverty 2,077 391 18.8% 81 3.9%
Benefit Recipiency          
Social Security (OASDI) 436 268 61.5% 67 15.4%
Supplemental Security Income 86 84 97.9% 25 29.2%
Employment (Ages 18-64)          
Employed 1,160 98 8.5% 8 0.7%
Unemployed (in labor force) 113 18 15.8% 2 2.0%
Not in labor force 466 201 43.0% 55 11.9%
Living Arrangement          
Lives alone 288 118 41.0% 26 9.1%
Lives with others 2,331 442 19.0% 96 4.1%

Source: Tabulations by the Center for PAS from the 2005 American Community Survey (ACS).

About the Mississippi 2005 ACS Disability Data

The Center for Personal Assistance Services has compiled state and national data on the prevalence of overall disability and of self-care difficulty, by gender, age, race and ethnicity, type of disability, family income, benefit recipiency, employment status, and living arrangement. These statistics are based on our tabulations of public use data from the Census Bureau's American Community Survey (ACS) for 2005, containing information on over 1 million residents of randomly selected U.S. households. Because it is a household survey, people living in institutions such as nursing homes are not included.


Previous years of disability data from the ACS:

 

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